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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks
immediately after health and a good conscience.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer. Clergy man.
Every man like the smell of his own farts.
A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside;
inside, it is more often his nursery.
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has
merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas (1868-1952) British author.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist.
I hate housework! You makes the beds, you do the dishes and
six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers (b.1935) American comedienne
Everybody’s always talking about people breaking into
houses… but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) American author.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore
let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist.
Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful
or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris (1834-1896)
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t
want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Jerome K.Jerome (1859-1927) British author.
A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) French architect.
To Adam paradise was home. To the good among his
descendants, home is paradise.
Hare.
The first sure symptom of a mind in health, is rest of
heart, and pleasure felt at home.
Young.
Without hearts there is no home.
Byron.
Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the
joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity. It makes
their hearts pure and good, if its men up to their Father in heaven.
Pestalozzi.
The first indication of domestic happiness is the love of
one’s home.
Montlosier.
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman
to make a home.
Chinese Proverb.
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his
children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this
delicious home feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace
in his home.
Goethe.
When home is ruled according to God’s word, angels might be
asked to stay with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
Spurgeon.
Households there may be, well ordered and abounding in
comfort families there may be, whose various members live in harmony and love
but homes, in their true sense, there cannot be where there is not one whom
manly choice has made a wife and infant lips have learned to honor with the name
of mother.
Home is the resort of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty,
where supporting and supported, polished friends and dearest relatives mingle
into bliss.
Thomson.
It is indeed at home that every man must be known by those
who would make a just estimate either of his virtue of felicity; for smiles and
embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in
painted honor and fictitious benevolence.
Johnson.
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation,
is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
Mrs. Sigourney.
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